| Ref No | SWCC/AUD/25 |
| Title | <title linktype="simple">Former Prime Ministers, Ministers of Fuel and Power etc, and Mining Constituency Members of Parliament's Study</title> |
| Interview of Benn, Tony (Rt Hon) |
| Second South Wales Coalfield Project 1979-82 |
| Description | <list><item><genreform type="record type"><emph altrender="a">audiotape</emph></genreform></item></list> |
| <p>Recorded memoirs of Tony Benn, former Minister of Technology. Includes the Labour Government and its accountability; economics of the coal industry; lack of an integrated fuel or energy policy; fuel industry competition; National Fuel Authority proposals; mining constituency MP's; the 1972 and 1974 strikes; oil lobby within Parliament; coal importation in the 1970's; running down of the mines; considerations by the South Wales Working Party of the effects of closures on the community; Seaton Carew nuclear power station; relationship between Trade Unions and Labour Party; militancy within the coal industry; productivity deals; achievements of TB in relation to the coal industry</p><p></p><list><item><persname><emph altrender="surname">Benn</emph><emph altrender="pre-title"></emph><emph altrender="forename">Tony [Rt Hon] & Robens</emph><emph altrender="dates"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph><emph altrender="epithet"></emph></persname><occupation>Members of Parliament</occupation></item><item><corpname><emph altrender="a">Labour Party & Trades Union Congress & National Union of Mineworkers & National Coal Board & National Fuel Authority</emph></corpname></item><item><geogname><emph altrender="country">Seaton Carew</emph><emph altrender="county">Billingham</emph><emph altrender="parish">Middlesborough</emph><emph altrender="township">Cleveland</emph><emph altrender="street">England</emph></geogname></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1972</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">event</emph><emph altrender="y">Strike, 1974</emph></subject></item><item><subject><emph altrender="a">coal mining </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nationalisation </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">trade unions </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">closures </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">strikes </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">productivity </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">anthracite </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">Parliamentary Acts </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">galas </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">nuclear energy </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject><subject><emph altrender="a">oil industry </emph><emph altrender="x"></emph></subject></item></list> |
| Date | 1945 = 1979 (c) |
| 1979 |
| Related Material | <archref linktype="simple"><extref linktype="simple"><emph altrender="filename">WXYZ</emph><emph altrender="identity">loan copy : Miners Library</emph></extref></archref> |
| Physical Description | good |
| Extent | no of tapes : 2 |
| Language | English |